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Representatives of Akamai, Symantec and Intel will serve on a new White House panel aimed at safeguarding government and commercial IT systems.

Appointed by President Bush, the National Infrastructure Advisory Committee (NIAC), also includes members of the banking and finance, transportation, energy,
and manufacturing sectors as well as academia, state and local government, and law enforcement.

Richard K. Davidson will serve as chairman of the NIAC. He is currently the chairman, president and CEO of Union Pacific Corp.

A White House spokesman was not immediately available to discuss how the members are chosen, or in what form the recommendations will come.

George Conrades, chairman and CEO of Akamai, a Cambridge, Mass., maker of Internet content delivery systems, said stregthening the country's information
systems "is vital to reducing vulnerabilities and increasing our capabilities to respond to new threats."

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